Dread may refer to
- Fear, associated with dread, an emotion
- Angst, a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being in Existentialist thought
- A short story in horror author Clive Barker's Books of Blood collection, or the comic-book or stage adaptation of same
- Dread (film), a 2009 horror film based on the Clive Barker story
- Dreadlocks, a hairstyle
- Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, a different independently published modern-horror role-playing game
- Dread RPG, a game of horror and hope
- DREAD: Risk assessment model, a model for assessing computer security risks; acronym for Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, and Discoverability
- Dredd, a 2012 film based on the comic book character Judge Dredd
Famous quotes containing the word dread:
“Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.
The flighty purpose never is o’ertook
Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)